Introduction I recently posted about using the Wikileaks cable corpus to find word use patterns, both over time, and in secret cables vs unclassified cables. I received a lot of good suggestions for further topics to pursue with the corpus, and probably the most interesting was the idea to do

6/18: A follow-up to this post is now available here. Recent Discoveries When I was a diplomat, I was always interested in the Wikileaks cables and what could be done with them. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to look at the site in depth, due to security policies.